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Safety fears as UK hospitals use nurses to cover for doctors due to shortage of medics

Exclusive: Advanced practitioners are being deployed to cover doctor rota gaps across the NHS, figures show

The Guardian - UK

Palantir and the NHS – 10 things you need to know

Palantir, a US data analytics company backed in its early years by In-Q-Tel, now plays a central role in the NHS’s £330 million Federated Data Platform. Supporters say it could improve planning and efficiency, while critics have raised questions about governance, transparency and trust. Here’s what you need to know.

The Conversation

Hundreds of NHS hospital beds to be released under new service rollout

The launch of a new home support platform is hoped to save millions of pounds

Evening Standard

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Ousting Starmer over Mandelson would be madness – yet it’s open season in Westminster

Defenestration has become the modus operandi in politics, instead of MPs working through the real issues of the day, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

NHS doctor in court over alleged support for Hamas

Dr Rahmeh Aladwan was arrested at her home in Pilning, south Gloucestershire, and charged with the six offences on March 26.

Evening Standard

Martin Compston joins John Swinney to warn of ‘significant threat’ from Reform

The actor campaigned for the SNP alongside the party’s leader in Greenock on Friday.

Evening Standard

Ballot for 2027 opens as TCS London Marathon runners prepare for warm weather

Holding a two-day TCS London Marathon is being explored for 2027 after more than one million people applied for a ballot place in Sunday’s race.

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One in 10 operations in England cancelled with less than 24 hours’ notice

Nearly 40% of cancellations could be avoided, researchers say

The Guardian - UK

Martin Compston urges voters to back SNP to ‘keep Farage out of Scotland’

The Line Of Duty star accused Scottish Labour of wanting to do a deal with Reform UK after the Holyrood election.

Evening Standard

NHS operations cancelled or delayed as patients ‘aren’t ready’ for surgery

Almost four in 10 last-minute cancellations were potentially avoidable

The Independent UK

Baby died after NHS trust failed to warn mother of ‘unsafe’ home birth, coroner finds

Seven-day-old Poppy Hope Lomas died after complications during home birth encouraged by midwives at Barnet hospital

The Guardian - UK

Thousands call on UK ministers to cut ties with US tech giant Palantir

More than 200,000 have signed petitions urging the government to break contracts amid concerns about the company’s ‘supervillain’ manifesto

The Guardian - UK

Mum of baby who died a week after home birth was ‘failed by NHS’

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The Independent UK

Baby died after NHS trust failed to warn mother of home birth risks, coroner finds

Poppy Hope Lomas was just one week old when she died

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Evening Standard

Fact check: Free NHS prescriptions and AI small boats videos

Round-up of fact checks from the last few days compiled by Full Fact.

The Independent UK

Taking vitamin D supplements has hidden potential benefits for some people

Vitamin D may help prevent pre-diabetes, which affects 6.3 million Britons, but only for those who have a certain gene

Evening Standard

Mother of baby who died days after home birth was failed by NHS trust – inquest

Poppy Hope Lomas was seven days old when she died in 2022 following complications during a home birth her mother said she was encouraged to have.

The Independent UK

Women’s Prize winner Rachel Clarke slams ‘empty and vacuous’ books that use AI: ‘How does that constitute art?’

Clarke wrote award-winning non-fiction book ‘The Story of a Heart’

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The Independent UK

Drug prices rise by up to 30 per cent due to Iran war, pharmacists warn

Painkillers and hay fever medications are seeing price hikes for customers due to a surge in oil prices

The Independent UK

NHS maternity care ‘not good enough’ as pregnancy deaths increase

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The Independent UK

Top midwife warns ‘things aren’t good enough’ as NHS overhauls care to reduce maternal deaths

Figures show 257 women died either during pregnancy or in the weeks after giving birth between 2021 and 2023

The Guardian - UK

‘This is not the country I moved to’: the British Indians showing support for Nigel Farage

Savitha Prakash, a first-generation immigrant running in local elections in Harrow, says Reform UK aims to ‘put Britain first’

The Independent UK

NHS crisis as more than 13,000 patients wait three days in A&E

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The Independent UK

One person diagnosed with cancer in the UK every 80 seconds

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The Guardian - UK

Iran war pushing up till price of some drugs by up to 30%, pharmacies warn

Chemists in England cost of painkillers like paracetamol and hay fever treatments say has jumped since February

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